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From: ritz@ritz.mordor.com (Chris Mauritz)
Subject: Re: SCSI errors 2.0.5 FreeBSD "sd0 timed out"
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Organization: Mordor International
Date: Mon, 11 Sep 1995 18:45:57 GMT
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Mattias Pantzare (pantzer@ludd.luth.se) wrote:
: Larry Snyder (larry@seminole.iag.net) wrote:
: : With heavy DiskIO I see:
: 
: : ahc0: target 0, lun 0, (sd0) timed out
: 
: : on the console.  all diskIO is stopped, and the LED on
: : the SCSI host adapter and hard drive are on solid
: 
: : this happens with heavy disk IO with the configuration
: : supporting 10 mhz transfers rates and sync transfers
: : enabled
: 
: I had the same problem until I upgraded to FreeBsd-stable. Now it can 
: take hevy disk IO with no problem.

It could also be a termination problem.  Is the last drive on
the chain terminated properly?  SCSI oddities on my external
drive went away when I switched from passive to active termination.

Chris
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